Transporting A Travel Platform To A Hybrid Cloud Model

Easybook places a premium on delivering an outstanding, always-on user experience. With more than 5,000,000 tickets sold via its website since its launch, it is constantly looking for ways to improve the cost-efficiency of its IT operations, while reinvesting the savings into enhancing features and capabilities to deliver new market offerings.

Its original IT infrastructure was based on a public cloud approach, which offered the agility and on-demand services that the company originally needed. However, with a rapidly growing user base, expansion into multiple markets, and the extension of its business strategy into B2B services, this approach was beginning to show its limitations and was resulting in increasingly high costs.

As a result, Easybook needed a solution that could give it the ability to keep expanding and control spiraling costs, while still being able to connect to Microsoft Azure to run its core business applications.

Value realized

Moving from a public cloud to a hybrid cloud model can be a complex task. However, Equinix and Cloud Kinetics took the project from a proposal to production platform in less than three months, with zero downtime or service interruptions.

Efficient installation

Easybook employs a single network engineer, so it relied heavily on Cloud Kinetics network and database engineers to set up new servers and install the databases, apps and web portal software. It also helped to set up the direct connections—between the ticket buying public, SaaS customers and Microsoft Azure Cloud—on which Easybook’s business depends.

Freedom to focus

Cloud Kinetics also provided complete facilities management services for the new IBX-based infrastructure. This eliminated the need for Easybook to dedicate staff to such tasks, and freed the company to focus on its real mission: growing the business and delivering a superior customer experience.

Big cost efficiencies

The new hybrid cloud model has resulted in cost savings of between 30-40%.

There are other compelling advantages, including secure, scalable and direct access to Azure cloud within the colocation facility. Ultimately, this results in high application performance while keeping data safe.

As well as offering the ability to directly connect to other CSPs, Equinix helps Easybook to remain nimble and ready to adopt new apps, technologies and innovations by tapping into multiple CSPs via ECX Fabric.

“With a physical presence in the Equinix IBX data center in Singapore, and potential to expand on its global platform, we have access to key markets, and can install the highest performing applications on our servers, while interconnecting with our cloud service providers and managing costs. Everything is within our control,” said Lee.

• Significant cloud subscription savings between 30-40%
• Zero downtime or service interruption
• Seamless interconnectivity with Azure Cloud
• Flexibility to scale rapidly to new markets and leverage new business partners